Tagged Lalla Ward

Big Finish has produced some fairly smart products over the years, and indeed the packaging on the physical CD products has been top notch. But it’s a digital world now; the excitement of opening a brand new album has been replaced (for the most part) by the excitement of near instant gratification. Of course, Big…

The universe is big and vast and complicated, and sometimes, multiple castings happen and we call them miracles. Yes, some people may have freaked out when Peter Capaldi was cast as the Doctor, because he had appeared in the Whoniverse before, as Caecilius in 2008’s The Fires of Pompeii and as John Frobisher in Torchwood: Children…

In news that we hope will signify more of the same, Big Finish has announced that Jonathan Morris is adapting Damaged Goods, Russell T Davies’ 1996 Virgin New Adventures Seventh Doctor story! A two-hour adaptation written ten years before Davies became showrunner, the adaptation will be released in August next year. Says former Doctor Who…

It’s not every day a lost Doctor Who gem like this pops up on YouTube, but when it happens, we want to share it, even it is nearly a year late! Uploaded by YouTube user stanleylodge1908, on September 19, 2013, this is a piece of footage of Tom Baker and Lalla Ward on location shooting…

This year, Big Finish will have been making Doctor Who audio adventures for 15 years. To celebrate this landmark they are releasing a special story in November, The Worlds of Doctor Who, which tells one epic four-hour adventure that weaves through many of our ranges. Linking these episodes together is the enigmatic, wholly dangerous Mr…

Former companion Lalla Ward and her husband Richard Dawkins will be sharing memories of the former Doctor Who script editor Douglas Adams at an upcoming memorial. Entitled Douglas Adams: A Conversation at the End of the Universe, the event will take place at London’s Highgate Cemetery on 11th March 2014, on what would have been Adams’ 62nd…

This year is another biggie in the world of Doctor Who – Big Finish, those fine purveyors of audio adventures of our favourite Time Lord and his ever expanding collection of allies, are celebrating their 15th anniversary and they are putting together something rather special to mark the occasion. The Worlds of Doctor Who is…